Talk about a reality check: The entire universe could be a "vast and complex hologram," scientists reported Monday. Also, even more unsettling, what we think of as reality may be just an illusion.

"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study co-author Kostas Skenderis of the U.K.'s University of Southampton.

The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910, and for over 100 years, it has been an organization where boys have learned how to become men. With its decision Monday to allow transgender boys into its ranks, the organization has changed that simple mission.

No longer will admission into the program depend on a child’s birth certificate or biological sex. The BSA will now accept anyone purely based on how this young person or his parents decide to identify the individual. A century of tradition is now gone thanks to leftist ideology. These days, it seems as if hundreds of years of tradition and culture are being erased by about 30 years of extreme liberal social engineering.

After locating a popular modern second grade reading text, The Superkids Hit Second Grade, I used Accelerated Reader’s text analyzer to measure the reading level of the book’s first lesson. It came in at 2.0 – right on target for a child just entering second grade. So far so good.

But running the first lesson of the Second Eclectic McGuffey reader which my friend’s 2nd graders were using didn’t make the modern text look so impressive. In fact, a student hitting 2nd grade using the second McGuffey textbook would be starting the year at a 3.7 reading level – the level of a 3rd grader in the seventh month of the school year!

Yay!!!! Kommon Kore four fore the win!!!!

The Morons are a diverse group, grade school grads, high school grads, vo-tech grads, college grads, doctorate grads. Everyone is different. We need teachers, garbage collectors, electricians, brain surgeons. The left has been pushing for universal education. Not everyone is cut out for college.

But according to social critic Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945), America’s egalitarian push for higher education for all was doomed to failure from the start. According to Nock, it was doomed to failure because not every person is capable of higher education.

Why? Two reasons, both of which run contrary to the assumptions of those who think everything can be controlled and determined by systems.

One, human beings are endowed with free will, and not every person will choose to discipline themselves in the way necessary to receive instruction. No amount of tinkering with a system can substitute for the all-important element of a student’s free choice to become educated.

The poem means the USA is willing to open their shores to people yearning for freedom not simply avoiding persecution, war or to attempt to bring about a political change via terrorism or any other means. This is saying we don't welcome people to establish colonies of their old world countries here on our shores. The entirety of the poem is a rejection of the ways of their former countries and a celebration of the new colossus that is the USA.

The workshop, “Polyamory vs. Cheating: Lessons from a Former Serial Monogamist,” will be taught by a representative from the “Relationship Equality Foundation,” which purports to “provide outreach, education, and support for those involved in or seeking relationships with non-traditional structures.”

Did you ever get into photography? What was your first camera? Your humble Cob's first camera was a Kodak Instamatic X-15 that used 126 film cartridges. My how technology has improved. Wish we could say the same thing for mankind.

Some, however, foresaw a future that stood at the cusp of possibility; like the writer who wrote a piece for the Lincoln Evening Journal called Looking Forward. In it, he describes 2017 as a world that is no longer dependent on coal for energy. The author envisioned a future where technology would be able to harvest energy from the sun and run it through pipes for electricity.

Obviously, we’re not quite there yet.

The ONT Musical Interlude

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Next on the agenda. Europe. The ONT is not trying to discuss politics per say. But the American people have spoken. And Europe is short on ears and long on mouth. Perhaps they should shut the f*ck up. Review our system of government and the fact that we have bailed their sorry asses out for decades. The EU appears to be at war with the US.

President of the European Council Donald Tusk has joined Verhofstadt in denouncing the Trump administration in a letter to European heads of state, clearly conveying the ranks of EU bureaucrats are closing. According to Tusk, unity is necessary since:

“Particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy.”

And last week researchers from the University of Calgary calculated that when euthanasia reaches the level of Belgium and the Netherlands, the country’s health system could save up to up to C$139 million every year. “Medical assistance in dying could reduce annual health care spending across Canada by between $34.7 million and $138.8 million, exceeding the $1.5–$14.8 million in direct costs associated with its implementation,” they wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Keep this fellow out of Canada.

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This could qualify of for a feel good story of the day award. After we read about the value of life, it's wonderful to see a touching story like this. Not all government workers are hardhearted. Fireman adopts baby girl he delivered. h/t rhomboid

We've all wished to be rich at least once in our lives, haven't we? If you were loaded what would you do? Would you buy an island? A desert compound? Falcons? A Saudi Prince has a boat load of money. And he spends it on his falcons.

This is a recent shot from an Airbus A330 of some of a Saudi prince's 80 falcons getting ready to fly the easy way. Falconry and competitive bird sports are all the rage with the affluent in the middle east, and birds can cost up to $250,000 apiece. A plane seat for a bird costs around $650, and they also have to have their own passport. Still, 80 falcons? That seems like a lot. When you're rich a rich prince when do you know it's time to stop buying falcons and start buying dragons? That was a trick question, the answer's four -- just like upgrading from houses to hotels in Monopoly.

I've always kinda thought this way, since I was just a wee lad just learning about physics for the first time.

There's no real sense in which there is any "there" there, behind matter or energy. It's all just increasingly more abstract descriptions of behaviors, not of "things".

Then I read a bit of philosophy here and there, and it's a commonly occurring idea in that realm as well.

It's actually one of the trains of though that lead me to abandon atheism and embrace religion (Christianity)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2017 10:07 PM (sK2fh)

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I've always been weirdly smug about Groundhog Day, being one who has spent the majority of his life in places like Montana and Wyoming, hell, even Colorado.

"Six weeks would be fucking awesome."

Love the movie though...except for Andie McDowell. Sheesh, she is tedious. Were it not for her, Groundhog Day would be my all-time favorite movie. As it is, it's somewhere in the teens. Right ahead of Better Off Dead, and just behind Revenge of the Nerds.

Everything old is new again. Was it in the late sixties, seventies when Open Marriage was the new thing? A couple of counselors/professionals were running all over promoting it as the answer to cheating. Of course, a short time later, the same couple announced that, big surprise, it led to divorce.

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co-author Kostas Skenderis: "Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study of the U.K.'s University of Southampton.

Aww, c'mon. You won't even concede a lousy 3-D Matrix? I'd like to have the option of driving by my favorite noodle shop one day.

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Everything old is new again. Was it in the late sixties, seventies when Open Marriage was the new thing? A couple of counselors/professionals were running all over promoting it as the answer to cheating. Of course, a short time later, the same couple announced that, big surprise, it led to divorce.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 02, 2017 10:09 PM (+lVUW)

Not so new. Chesterton wrote about "free" love. He thought the idea was silly.

They're not talking about Idealism at all, just "Hey, we rammed a bunch of noise through a buttload of filters and transforms, and some crap came out and we made up some cockamamie new cosmology out of it"

whoopdie doo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2017 10:15 PM (sK2fh)

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Polygamy is a great idea. You qualify for group rates when you take your wives on honeymoon at Chuck E Cheese.

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Today I finally did something I've wanted to do for at least 35 years. My dad isn't a "car guy", he's never owned a new car, never had a project car in the shed, he's never wanted a hot rod. When I was a teenager, he once bought a car for $25 and used it as his daily driver (a 1967 Ford Cortina, of all things, an English car that was imported to the states in limited numbers. A neighbor had one, it stopped running. Dad bought it, wired around the neutral safety switch, and drove it for 5 years. In fact, he bought 2 more for another $25 total and used them for parts. I'm amazed that he found 3 of them, all w/i about 5 miles of our suburban Baltimore house. Seriously amazed to this day).

But.

From time to time, as long as I can remember, he has spoken of the 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 as just THE car. He would have been 15 when they came out, the first high compression engine out of Detroit. Granddad either had one or wanted one, I don't remember which, but it has always had the top spot in dad's pantheon of cars. He'd never buy himself one, of course, even though he could afford to, he's not one to spend money on frivolous things. Ever since I was a teenager, I thought "Man, someday I'll buy one of those cars for dad". It's been kind a a quiet, out of reach dream of mine forever, something that sure would be nice to do, but probably not possible or practical.

Today I gave my dad a 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Here's a picture of dad with his new car: https://twitter.com/GingyNorth/status/827226518292140032.

I bought it two weeks ago, in Illinois. Gingy and I drove 1700 miles in 36 hours to look at the car, and we bought it on the spot. We had it shipped home, and this morning it was delivered. I surprised him with it around noon. Now dad can go for Sunday drives with his best girl in his very own Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Maybe they'll even find a malt shop.

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"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study co-author Kostas Skenderis of the U.K.'s University of Southampton.

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AshevilleRobert: "An Argus C3. And I ended up running a darkroom for a little while. You learn some neat stuff."

Yep. Such as moving like a robot in complete darkness and without dropping, spilling, or mis-orienting hours of work, some of it irretrievable and irreplaceable.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2017 10:20 PM (1CroS)

98Today was a good day.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)

Very cool.

My dad did something similar a while back. He bought a 54 Ford Coupe and had it fully restored...then gifted it to my grandparents on their 50th wedding annv. It was the same make/model my grandpa owned when he and my grandmother were dating and then first married.

Best thing I recall was from 2003. Iraq war. One of their reporters - Bob Arnot (?) - was a physician, and a pilot, and spoke Arabic. Um - a little different than your average "journalist" these days, huh?

I recall one live report (I'd watch it around the clock when the short kinetic phase was under way) where he was pressed into service by the Marines he was with for both his language, and medical, capabilities.

Pretty awesome.

And that reminds me of another, darker chapter from another network at that time. I think it was CNN's Sanjay Gupta - also a physician, surgeon or neurosurgeon (?) - was pressed into service to help with the head wound of a soldier (or something close to that). Of course he jumped right in and did his best. I'm not making this up - there were bouts of "ethical" hand-wringing by other "journalists" over this.

Anyway, things were different 1,000 years ago, in 2003. Well, some things.

P.S. MisHum, I actually mentioned the fireaman/adopts/rescued girl story in a recent ONT, saw it somewhere else that night.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 10:23 PM (QDnY+)

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Now dad can go for Sunday drives with his best girl in his very own Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Maybe they'll even find a malt shop.

Today was a good day.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)

113This could qualify of for a feel good story of the day award. After we read about the value of life, it's wonderful to see a touching story like this. Not all government workers are hardhearted. Fireman adopts baby girl he delivered. h/t rhomboid

If it was a cop, the squirming, screaming baby would have been arrested for disturbing the peace, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 10:26 PM (0mRoj)

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Tomorrow (in a few hours) is Four Chaplains Day. In 1943, four men of different faiths comforted survivors of the torpedoed troop ship Dorchester, giving them their own life jackets when the lockers had run out. They went down with the ship, holding hands, singing, and praying according to their own faiths. Just an FYI if anyone hasn't heard of their story:

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"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field..."

If one ponders implications of relativity and an expanding universe this idea isn't all that bizarre as you might suppose. Around every point in the universe is a bubble defined by a boundary at which the expansion of space from that point reaches the speed of light. That boundary resembles an event horizon of black hole in that an observer at the central point will never witness an object actually crossing the boundary because of time dilation. Instead, the observe will see the object slow down and the radiation it emits red shifted to lower and lower frequencies. The lower frequencies means the observer can no longer place the precise position of the object -- and when the frequencies reach the width of the universe the object is for all meaningful purposes exists spread along the entire boundary.

It sounds kind of bizarre, but the real kicker is that for a distant point in space, we ourselves exist on that boundary. To an observer that might be at that point our existence takes place entirely on the 2-dimensional surface that surrounds them and defines the horizon of their universe.

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I have long believed that the next domino to fall after the gay marriage decision would be polygamy. It will come in the form of a Muslim American citizen who married a second wife, also an American citizen, overseas, and demands that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts recognize his religious right to marry multiple women. The Supreme Judicial Court will fall all over themselves making arguments for why polygamy is a right.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (jK8Z7)

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That tattooed young woman would have been beautiful if she hadn't mutilated herself. Good lord, what a tragedy.

Don't forget the groundhog who bit the tar out of Mayor Mikey Bloomberg.

Posted by: Beverly at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (HRUrF)

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I greased one of Puxatawny Phil's cousins off a bench/tripod from 1,660 yards wit a 338 Ultra Mag, 300 grain Sierra MatchKing through 33" Lilja match grade barrel with Hogdon/ Rotumbo powder and massaged brass. Walked it in on the third shot and cart-wheeled him. Yeah, just a rodent.

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Something that I wrote and walked away from without pressing submit and then it ended up getting willowed.

409 Clever people getting paid money to say clever things. Minimally viable politics is an analogy to software /product development in a lean or agile fashion. A minimally viable product does just enough to get people to use it and catch on, and fund future developments and operations.

As with all analogies, you get feature creep. One, people want more. Two, the people who make stuff want to keep getting paid to make stuff. So, new features. Is Word 2016 better than Word 2013 better than 2010 better than 2007 etc etc etc?

That's why there are paradigm breakers who are disruptive over time, you get some bloated thing with lots of features which have many individual adherents, but clog things up for the main body of users. So what they end up doing is hiding all the small constituent features off in the margins

That's kind of where we are with politics. You never roll back feature sets. You go with a new product.

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Oops, in my description above I meant to say, "and when the wavelengths reach the width of the universe the object for all meaningful purposes exists spread along the entire boundary."

Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 10:31 PM (I/SRC)

133I hope Sierra Club gets a bunch of club membership cancellations as of tomorrow as a result of that bozo.
Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (P8951)

I hate to say it, but he may get a lot of contributions. This freak-show garbage is the space that Sierra, PETA et al live in.

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"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study co-author Kostas Skenderis of the U.K.'s University of Southampton.
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Or...as we said when I was a kid, "Suppose one thing, suppose another, suppose a jackass is your brother."

144Talk about a reality check: The entire universe could be a "vast and
complex hologram," scientists reported Monday.Kewl, dude. When I hold the card this way, the hologram has these assholes burn down their own section of town!

Posted by: teenager from the 26th dimension with his 1st credit card at February 02, 2017 10:32 PM (nlbfN)

Then comes the cleaning. And the rearranging. And then The Decorating.

And then they start trying to rearrange you.

And then comes The Hating.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her!

That reminds me of that old joke about the 3 stages of marriage.
Stage one is House Sex, where the newlywed couple has sex in every room of the house.
Stage two is Bedroom Sex, where the couple has sex once a week in the bedroom.
Stage three is Hallway Sex where the couple says, "F**k you" as they pass in the hallway.

Apparently they had planned to buy a 30-second ad to air during Super Bowl LI. They found out the cost of the ad would be the same amount of money... as giving all of their employees an extra paid day off work.

So they chose... to give their employees the paid day off.

Hmm. Anyone here think this was a good decision? A bad one? I personally think it was an okay decision.

Just ask a married guy if he wants multiple wives. Don't bother listening to the answer, just watch his expression.

Posted by: Flyboy at February 02, 2017 10:34 PM (R3Jti)

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122 That tattooed young woman would have been beautiful if she hadn't mutilated herself. Good lord, what a tragedy.

Indeed. Her exterior projects her inner turmoil.

Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 10:34 PM (I/SRC)

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I have long believed that the next domino to fall after the gay marriage decision would be polygamy. It will come in the form of a Muslim American citizen who married a second wife, also an American citizen, overseas, and demands that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts recognize his religious right to marry multiple women. The Supreme Judicial Court will fall all over themselves making arguments for why polygamy is a right.---

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Talk about a reality check: The entire universe could be a "vast and complex hologram," scientists reported Monday. Also, even more unsettling, what we think of as reality may be just an illusion.
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From Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson'

"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."

Apparently they had planned to buy a 30-second ad to air during
Super Bowl LI. They found out the cost of the ad would be the same
amount of money... as giving all of their employees an extra paid day
off work.

So they chose... to give their employees the paid day off.

Hmm. Anyone here think this was a good decision? A bad one? I personally think it was an okay decision.

159"Talk about a reality check: The entire universe could be a "vast and complex hologram," scientists reported Monday. Also, even more unsettling, what we think of as reality may be just an illusion."

It's those Reptilians from the other side of Mars.

Posted by: Don at February 02, 2017 10:37 PM (NPutB)

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#151: Yeah, but I still don't think she's exactly a good illustration of "celibacy". There are plenty of dudes out there who would still want to hit that, and she doesn't exactly strike me as the sort who would turn her nose up at them.

I saw an interview with a couple that had been married for 70-some years. They said, with totally straight faces, but huge twinkles in their eyes, that they were just staying together until all the kids were dead. Loved it.

You could do it in the front yard so the neighbors could applaud your choice.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 10:43 PM (IcT7t)

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>> That boundary resembles an event horizon of black hole in that an
observer at the central point will never witness an object actually
crossing the boundary because of time dilation.

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It actually is an event horizon. A cosmological horizon. If you're familiar with GR, see "de Sitter space", and nice toy model of an expanding universe, which you get with zero matter but with a cosmological constant. It makes a very simple solution (relatively speaking, for GR) to the field equations but gives you all the features of an accelerating expanding universe.

The notion of metric expansion is a coordinate one, not real/invariant, just one way to coordinatize the space-time. It admits a static coordinatization, known as Static de Sitter coordinates.

This looks exactly like an inside-out black hole. Rather than that an event horizon at small radius, and everything falling in, you have a space inside surrounded by an event horizon at a large radius.

Things fly apart -- there is a rip tide, as it can be called. Things fly away and freeze at the cosmological horizon, the inside out version of the classic Schwarzschild black hole.

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152 I have long believed that the next domino to fall after the gay marriage decision would be polygamy. It will come in the form of a Muslim American citizen who married a second wife, also an American citizen, overseas, and demands that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts recognize his religious right to marry multiple women. The Supreme Judicial Court will fall all over themselves making arguments for why polygamy is a right.
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#152: I personally think incest is next up. Now that gender and reproduction no longer matter where sex and marriage are concerned, I think we're more likely to see a couple of gay brothers demand the right to marry each other first.

After all, the primary purpose of laws against incest is to prevent inbreeding. If it's a gay couple of relatives, they're not gonna produce children together, anyway, so that outdated relic of an excuse to deny them their love no longer has any real meaning, see?

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We're a big Scouting family. 21 year old has Eagle, 15 year old is almost Eagle. I was a Den Leader and on Cub Scout Committee; husband was Scout Master and has his Wood Badge. When I heard about the trannies being accepted, I thought, "How can a scout be reverent and clean, mentally and physically?" Just hypocrisy to make them learn the Scout Pledge now.
I didn't tell my hubby my morbid thoughts. He thinks them already; it'll just bring him down to vocalize. I love that guy, and yes, he has bad breathe and snores, and sports an extra 20 lbs. Also, plays too much golf! He doesn't philander and when he heads to bed, he kisses me good night.

202This is a recent shot from an Airbus A330 of some of a Saudi prince's 80
falcons getting ready to fly the easy way. Falconry and competitive
bird sports are all the rage with the affluent in the middle east, and
birds can cost up to $250,000 apiece. A plane seat for a bird costs
around $650, and they also have to have their own passport. Still, 80
falcons? That seems like a lot. When you're rich a rich prince when do
you know it's time to stop buying falcons and start buying dragons? That
was a trick question, the answer's four -- just like upgrading from
houses to hotels in Monopoly.

I bet that plane stank to high heaven. Why? Because each falcon has one carrion.

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I got my Valentines Day present early. It's a Melania Trump pin from her jewelry line. Looks like a white rose with gold edgings and rhinestones. Unlike a MAGA hat, I can wear it and not get attacked.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (Lqy/e)

223what do you think would be a great ad? What would the ad look like?

Trying to represent this place in a TV commercial would be like trying to film a sharknado meeting WWII in a cage match held in zero G.

Nobody would have any idea what was going on, but it would be spectacular.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (IcT7t)

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what do you think would be a great ad? What would the ad look like?
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Let's also imagine we have enough money to either (a) bribe the FCC or (b) pay the fine. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (u8kLQ)

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The Paolo, he likes you to have multiple wives. This saves the Paolo much travel time.

Posted by: Paolo at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (0mRoj)

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120 I have long believed that the next domino to fall after the gay marriage decision would be polygamy. It will come in the form of a Muslim American citizen who married a second wife, also an American citizen, overseas, and demands that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts recognize his religious right to marry multiple women. The Supreme Judicial Court will fall all over themselves making arguments for why polygamy is a right.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 02, 2017 10:28 PM (jK8Z7)

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195: After that Supreme Court ruling, the "love wins" nonsense, I said, fuck it, let's make these lunatics deal with the logical conclusion of this. So, yeah, go full incest.

Most of the "love wins" crowd will balk at that. But guess what. At some age of the mother, 38 I believe, the chances of birth defects in her child equals that of direct brother-sister incest reproduction, and then exceeds it as the age increases.

So if you hold that the only logical reason to ban incest is to prevent genetic problems, then you should hold that it should be made illegal for a woman over 38 or so to give birth.

Most people wouldn't do that, thinking that's tyranny. And that shows that's not the real reason for banning incest. We think it's sick. The same way we think bestiality is sick, and used to think homosexual acts were sick.

You will find these "love wins" types get very uncomfortable when forced to follow this logical path.

Well, we had it unloaded a street over from where my folks live. A lady walking her dog stopped to look at the car and asked me what it was. I said "This IS my father's Oldsmobile"

Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:55 PM (QGamW)

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171 Why was Heinz considering spending all that money on advertising if they didn't think it would improve sales (which, evidently, they didn't)?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
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I do not think that any of the ads do. It's corporate ego at work.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 02, 2017 10:40 PM (ZO497)

--Will Rogers:

"If companies would spend as much money improving their product as they do advertising it, they would not need to advertise their product."

Posted by: logprof at February 02, 2017 10:56 PM (emDjj)

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I read some of the accounts of the original Utah pioneers. One mentioned that if you buy one a new bonnet, you have to buy all the wives a new bonnet.

There were also complaints that the missionaries in Europe married the attractive converts, leaving the (paraphrasing) 'less attractive' ones to make the journey to Utah as singles exp citing to change that state after arrival.

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"Things fly away and freeze at the cosmological horizon, the inside out version of the classic Schwarzschild black hole."

Indeed, that pretty much how I interpret it. I don't have a good understanding of the math, but I've long contemplated the popular writings of Leonard Susskind's on the subject.

What we perceive to be "the universe" is but a minuscule 3D space-time bubble on a 2D surface that defines vast bulk of the actual universe.

Posted by: mpthompson at February 02, 2017 10:56 PM (I/SRC)

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This might have already been said, since I'm on the west coast, and this ONT is always so early for me: if a republican mayor had killed an innocent groundhog, we would be reminded of it annually, ad nauseum.

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a great ad would be someone throws John McCain down a flight of stairs, then someone else asks McCain if he's hurt and he replies, "no, I'm ok, I just landed on head". Could sell burgers to vegans.

Posted by: mallflower on the range at February 02, 2017 10:57 PM (b7fwp)

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Good job WD......maybe some day the next generation will surprise you!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 02, 2017 11:02 PM (TnUKj)

264Around every point in the universe is a bubble defined by a boundary at
which the expansion of space from that point reaches the speed of light.Travel twice the speed of sound, it's easy to get burned.

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An AOSHQ ad should be a black screen and 30 seconds
of the sound of a drill, followed by much cursing and the sound of
collapsing wood.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:54 PM (oVJmc)

I'm telling Shelvey on you!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:09 PM (tHwdc)

289Well, that was weird. I tried to link something and got an error message.

Twice.

That happens when the copied text has unicode characters. The HQ is old school, it only understands HTML. In posts by Ace or the COBS, that's what causes the black diamonds.

You can "wash" the quoted text through the unicode to HTML converter here: https://www.charset.org/html-special-characters and then paste it into the comments box. You'll find that unicode characters have been changed to HTML - It'll look like this ---> #82 20; (Without the space, that's HTML for the quote symbol). Simply replace the HTML text with the correct character in the comment box here, and Bob's your uncle.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 11:10 PM (QGamW)

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How'd the thread get so long this fast?------------------------That's what she said!

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I bought it two weeks ago, in Illinois. Gingy and I drove 1700 miles in 36 hours to look at the car, and we bought it on the spot. We had it shipped home, and this morning it was delivered. I surprised him with it around noon. Now dad can go for Sunday drives with his best girl in his very own Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Maybe they'll even find a malt shop.

Today was a good day.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 10:19 PM (QGamW)

Congratulations, WD? Was he surprised?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:11 PM (WDdjT)

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Out of millions of desperately swimming sperm, you were the fastest!
Posted by: BC
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Yeah. Fending off those other assholes was bitch. And the water that day was acidic as hell. Can't believe that I made it.

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I came to Olds late in life, by mere happenstance, but made up for it (have had four, including a '66 Toronado). But even before I understood why they had a thing going on, I hammered on my head over the "This is not your father's Oldsmobile" ads. Hadn't they always been respected? Why would they want to...and so on.

Here is the mea culpa, from the guy who wrote the line. It has Shatner, Shatner's daughter's lady bits, and a lot more.http://tinyurl.com/h3lorrw

317
From Weirddave's car story. His dads dream car was from when his dad was about 15. My dream car also comes from when I was close to that age a 1970 Buick GS. Makes me wonder what dream cars will be for young males today.

320I was referring to the underwear...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:15 PM

What is this underwear you speak of?

Posted by: Scots Highlanders at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (DMUuz)

321
Regarding the EU being at war with the US - death throes are always painful.

<cue Nelson Muntz laugh> HA HA!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:19 PM (tHwdc)

322
>>>From Weirddave's car story. His dads dream car was
from when his dad was about 15. My dream car also comes from when I was
close to that age a 1970 Buick GS. Makes me wonder what dream cars will
be for young males today.Posted by: Willy J. at February 02, 2017 11:18 PM (W6Ch1)<<<

331
222 I got my Valentines Day present early. It's a Melania Trump pin from her jewelry line. Looks like a white rose with gold edgings and rhinestones. Unlike a MAGA hat, I can wear it and not get attacked.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 02, 2017 10:52 PM (Lqy/e)

348
A jolly Roger fluttering in the breeze. The scene dissolves and a diffused light appears and resolves into a primeval old growth forest.

As the songs of birds are heard and butterflies flit through the glen, we hear a blood curdling scream. Suddenly, a hobo pushing a shopping cart, rushes through the Glen, bleeding from 1/8th inch drill holes. Screaming, Noooooo! He abandons the cart and tries to flee but trips over his bed roll and lands hard on the ground.

Appearing on top of a downed tree is an Ewok wearing a hobo skin, a messenger bag, and carrying an IKEA drill. He shouts of his victory. "Yubba, Yubba!!"

He leaps upon the fallen hobo and dispatches him with a shelf that was hidden in his messenger bag. After a quickly dressing the hobo, he reaches into the bag and pulls out a bottle of Valu-rite. He finishes the bottle, drops it, and passes out.

We focus on the bottle label. Ace of Spades, HQ, Valu-rite.

Scene fades back to the fluttering Jolly Roger flag. The announcer speaks. "Valu-rite. The drink of Morons and ettes. Available where longbows and crossbows are sold".

That right there is deserving of a post of it's own. It's deserving of an Instalanche. It's deserving of being linked throughout the breadth and width of the dextrosphere, such as it exists in however many pixelated dimensions may fit onto a screen.

And somewhere out there, is a Mensch of the Year award with Weirddave's name, already engraved on the plaque.

Helluva thing, to blow-out any possible competition with nearly eleven months remaining in the year, but there it is.

I'm pouring a bourbon, so that I may toast Weirddave's beautiful gesture. And him. And another toast to the parents who obviously did things right with their boy, all along the way.

I'm beginning to think that we're seeing some evolution in process, that Teh Horde is a self-improving, self-selecting sub-species.

357
Ace is quite pissed on the twatter thing tonight and rightfully so.

Newsweek headline: Milo gets schooled at Berkeley.

These people really don't want what they think they want.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at February 02, 2017 11:28 PM (GzDYP)

358
A Mini Cooper is what a Smart Fortwo wants to be when it grows up.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:29 PM (u8kLQ)

359
a great ad would be someone throws John McCain down a flight of stairs, then someone else asks McCain if he's hurt and he replies, "no, I'm ok, I just landed on head". Could sell burgers to vegans.

Richard Widmark, pushing McCain down a flight of stairs , strapped into a wheelchair

361
Yes, three of their five goals were just pure luck. That leaves them with only 2 legit goals. Not nearly enough against the Wild's.......1?

Nevermind

Posted by: Weirddave at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (QGamW)

362
348 A jolly Roger fluttering in the breeze. The scene dissolves and a diffused light appears and resolves into a primeval old growth forest.

As the songs of birds are heard and butterflies flit through the glen, we hear a blood curdling scream. Suddenly, a hobo pushing a shopping cart, rushes through the Glen, bleeding from 1/8th inch drill holes. Screaming, Noooooo! He abandons the cart and tries to flee but trips over his bed roll and lands hard on the ground.

Appearing on top of a downed tree is an Ewok wearing a hobo skin, a messenger bag, and carrying an IKEA drill. He shouts of his victory. "Yubba, Yubba!!"

He leaps upon the fallen hobo and dispatches him with a shelf that was hidden in his messenger bag. After a quickly dressing the hobo, he reaches into the bag and pulls out a bottle of Valu-rite. He finishes the bottle, drops it, and passes out.

We focus on the bottle label. Ace of Spades, HQ, Valu-rite.

Scene fades back to the fluttering Jolly Roger flag. The announcer speaks. "Valu-rite. The drink of Morons and ettes. Available where longbows and crossbows are sold".

364
If it's an illusion, why isn't it a better one, instead of a cold, uncaring, miserable place to be?

Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)

Maybe the Universe is just a vast and complex mammogram, and we are the lumps.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:30 PM (WDdjT)

365
#339: That doesn't seem like such a tough choice to me. Want to pay more for a better car? Get the Mini. On a stricter budget, and just want some little thing to tool around town in? Get the Fiat. Or a Nissan Versa Note. Or whatever's in your price range.

Dudes, by the time the games count, MisHum will be wearing shorts, Obamacare will be repealed, and The Wall will be half-way completed.

As the old timer says to the young kids in the locker room at hockey scrimmage - "I don't watch hockey until Memorial Day". Never, once, eliciting any appreciation of the acid sarcasm referring to a ridiculously over-long season.

375
The first camera I used was a Kodak Hawkeye Brownie with flash attachment. Probably made around 1950. I have a vague memory it used 620 film and produced two and a fraction inch photos without enlargement. That size was good enough for family snapshot albums.

Yeah, I would say things have changed. But those cameras were affordable by almost everyone, the film could be easily processed in a bathroom, and they provided decades of family memories.

Guy was able to find the Garand his father carried (WWII or Korea, forget), by serial number (CMP had it), got it, cleaned it up, and presented it to him at a veterans' event or reunion. Few dry eyes resulted.

389
That link was for "Valu-Rite" vodka... Don't be fooled by cheap imitations!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at February 02, 2017 11:41 PM (kP16F)

390
Once in a while I am able to overlook everybody's reliability listings enough to glance at a current Mini, but then they remind me of the actual real Minis which were so awesomely snarlyow that I'd feel like a poser for being seen in one.

Giving your dad motor vehicles does not always work out so well. I gave my dad a motorcycle when he was 52. The guys on the construction site made fun of him for being an old man(!) on a motorcycle, so he rode it a few times and then meh.

Some years later, on the verge of old age (both of us, I guess) I got the deuce. He drove a deuce from LeHavre to Metz, and I thought the two of us would be doing a lot of MVPA stuff. Couple of shows, couple of parades, and that was it. Still managed to have some fun with it though.

I actually have to bestir myself to figure out a game or two of the local minor league team to go to. Various groups of friends want to go.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:44 PM (QDnY+)

395
What a fun night.
Just Gary and me. Workjnv up songs for me to play guitar on. Two of his, Promised Land and Almost Tried, and two covers, For What It's Worth and When When You Say Nothing At All.
Already doing another one of his.
On Promised Land, if I can pull it off, I'll be keeping a beat on kick drum and hi-hat, playing guitar and taking two of the three solos on harmonica.
Eat your heart out Jimmy Fadden. Ok, maybe not,,, but still

Posted by: teej at February 02, 2017 11:44 PM (3duqG)

396
#344 Bring your laptop into the bathroom with you; the steam will clean its camera nicely.

Warbler, the lens is always covered with a post-it. Even James Comey says to do that, and he should know.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:44 PM (tHwdc)

397
Regarding that hologram story: why am I reminded of a science-y version of Plato?

399
Was it the fuel injection? Have heard it was one of the very first cars to offer it standard.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (u8kLQ)

Chevy offered fuel injection in '57, not '67. It remained available for a year or two at most. Was not quite ready for prime time. Those early Rochester FI rigs are highly sought-after collectibles, now.

Time for Donald to pack it in and head back to the golf course, I guess.

We warned you!

Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:45 PM (QDnY+)

401Forty Six degrees north latitude and spring doesn't get here until mid May or so, for some values of 'spring'.

That's - let me do the math here, feb,mar,apr - ok twelve to fourteen weeks. Sure there will be warm afternoons, warm being defined as above freezing in the sunlight, but it takes weeks of warm afternoons to melt the snow when it refreezes at night.

Posted by: Zack Lee at February 02, 2017 11:46 PM (8HZp0)

402
Scene fades back to the fluttering Jolly Roger flag.
The announcer speaks. "Valu-rite. The drink of Morons and ettes.
Available where longbows and crossbows are sold".

Fade to black.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 02, 2017 11:27 PM (ShwM+)

I'd pay to watch that commercial.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 02, 2017 11:46 PM (tHwdc)

403
#386: And Lyft has announced plans to oppose Trump. Let's hear it for plain old-fashioned union-strangled taxi cabs, then, I guess.

408
Commercial. Hmmm.
A screen (totally black) with James Earl Jones narrating the following:
They were alive, but there was no life within. Their days and nights were filled with despondent typing on blogs of no consequence and fearing death due to terminal ennui. There was no hope.
(A small dot of light appears on the screen, at first dim. Slowly it brightens and grows to a full white screen as JEJ continues speaking.)
There then appeared, as if from nothing, a light. A light that slowly grew in dimension and illumination. Drawing all those who saw it closer and closer to its warm embrace. Melting away the icy prison of death that entombed their hearts.
Those bindings that imprisoned their thoughts are suddenly severed by a fiery sword. Free at last, they drink in the wisdom that flows freely from the only true source of life.
(Screen fills with ACE in giant capitals. Below the web address flashing on and off.)

417
Have a Starbucks gift card to use up (no way I'm leaving them the $$).

Back last year when the incredibly idiotic "talk about race" nonsense was barfed up by the Starbucks top management, I tormented some young employees - who didn't really know much about it. And who, to their credit, pretty much rolled their eyes about it.

And this was after the dingbat CEO had his bizarre, mindless "create jobs by humming and having positive thoughts! eleventy!" "jobs" initiative.

It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant, effectively unintelligent, and lacking in socratic knowledge so many successful business people can be. And Schultz doesn't have the excuse of being a fairly unworldly youngster, like the Facebook kid.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 02, 2017 11:54 PM (QDnY+)

418
>Do you ever wonder what people like her do for a living? Or even sadder, what do they do for enjoyment

Well, it sure doesn't bother me that Uber and Lyft are "abandoning" Trump. Their entire business model is basically a means of commoditizing ride-sharing to help unemployed or under-employed people make a few dollars.

If Trump is successful in getting Americans back to work in full-time productive jobs, both Uber and Lyft will take a big hit in both ridership and driver participation.

425
I'm a Deplorable. I have a pickup. I use Uber when it breaks down. Fortunately I know a mechanic with a mobile shop. He can come out and fix it in the driveway.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 02, 2017 11:58 PM (Lqy/e)

426Old Volvos, PV, P210, P1800. Always thought Citroens were cool until found out the French made them.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 02, 2017 11:48 PM (ptQdD)

I'd damn near kill for a very minty, restored and mildly modified P-1800 wagon.

Modern brakes, dampers, bushings and other movement and wear items. Find the best match for aftermarket, modern electronic ignition package. Do the mods to the head so that running unleaded wouldn't be an issue.

A few interior upgrades, such as modern, fully adjustable seats, steering column and some good audio hiding behind a vintage-look faceplate.

That's damn near the ideal Shooting Brake in my book, right there. The only one I'd like more, Mercedes never made, it exists nowhere but my fevered imagination.

Cars like that are lotto dreams, at best. But fun lotto dreams, so I'll keep on enjoying 'em.

The odd thing that muddies the waters a bit - in his otherwise idiotic message, Schultz said they would target former employees of the US in war zones (translators, etc.). Which is of course a good thing. But seems like it would be a wrenchingly uncool thing to airheads like the Starbucks people, who were presumably like Code Pink or a lot of AOSHQ commenters about Iraq.

In any case there's little chance any employees will have any better understanding of refugee process, immigration, intelligence, or any other relevant topic than their CEO.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 03, 2017 12:00 AM (QDnY+)

430
I don't think polygamy is going to be accepted since the Federal Government forced the Mormons to give up their religious belief to gain admittance to the Union.

I don't see how Islam can be allowed polygamy and the Mormons can not.

At least, not in my lifetime, presuming California doesn't declare independence and break up the Union when other geographic/demographic regions try the same thing.

Of course, since the US was formed on the idea of religious freedom - freedom to practice your religion as you see fit - except for the Mormons. Well, it's a matter of who can make the bigger ruckus and who gets tired of the chaos.

Posted by: that's what it sounds like at February 03, 2017 12:01 AM (wpC7C)

432
If Trump is successful in getting Americans back to work in full-time productive jobs, both Uber and Lyft will take a big hit in both ridership and driver participation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 02, 2017 11:57 PM (WDdjT)

--Yes. ^^^ +1

Posted by: logprof at February 03, 2017 12:01 AM (GsAUU)

433
My first camera was a Nikon F3, gift of my father. Still have it, though it's too expensive these days to use it.

He really is one of the most pathetic, and contemptible, public figures.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 03, 2017 12:03 AM (QDnY+)

436
418 >Do you ever wonder what people like her do for a living? Or even sadder, what do they do for enjoyment

I would bet on "cutting" for enjoyment
Posted by: Chuck C at February 02, 2017 11:54 PM
--------------------
Yeah, cutting and drugs for fun.
And then collecting SSDI for a living.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (Nox3c)

437
I love that Hooters is changing their brand at the exact opposite point in history where they should. Reverse perfect timing much?

Posted by: Max Power at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (QCc6B)

438
well, those kangaroo fucking convicts made a vile pact with obama to trade their filthy jihadi refugees with us in exchange for taking people who were in costa rica for some reason. we should spit in their faces and curse them all for making a deal with a man that obviously hates his countrymen in right before or after the election in which his successor from another party was named.

445
Euthanasia is fine by me. I suggest we propose to make it available on a test basis for Trump haters.

Posted by: S at February 03, 2017 12:09 AM (YtzJ5)

446First camera was a Kokak Brownie Reflex. It wasn't mine, exactly; belonged to the family. I had a Japanese copy for a short time, and a Japanese Miranda Sensorex which was loaned to a semipro camera guy who broke it for me. I've had too many cameras to remember them all, especially by name.

Currently use a Nikon D90 which I like very much. Just wish I was rich so I could buy all the new Nikons. I like Nikons.

IPD is a large business in Portland, OR, catering to vintage Volvos. What you want to do is very much do-able, and they cater to that sort of market. I have a friend who is a Volvo nut, and have been to IPD's store myself.

The wagon is the P1800ES, and they aren't that expensive. And you could get by with stock Volvo seat in good condition. Volvos had about the best seats in the industry during that time period. I believe some seat types were made for them by Recaro.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:10 AM (WDdjT)

448123 I greased one of Puxatawny Phil's cousins off a bench/tripod from 1,660 yards wit a 338 Ultra Mag, 300 grain Sierra MatchKing through 33" Lilja match grade barrel with Hogdon/ Rotumbo powder and massaged brass. Walked it in on the third shot and cart-wheeled him. Yeah, just a rodent.
Posted by: JROD at February 02, 2017 10:29 PM (Ax5Cx)[/l]

What optic did you use?

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 12:10 AM (di1hb)

449
211 what do you think would be a great ad? What would the ad look like?

**Wide shot of bedroom. Camera pans in from behind an elderly man sitting on the edge of his bed**

**The shot keeps zooming in over his shoulder, a computer screen comes into view across the room**

**Camera snaps to the screen, emblazoned with the AoSHQ header. The first headline on the page recount Donald Trump's immigration EO. The Second is Donald Trump freezing DC hiring. The third is more Trump winning, capped off with "... and Hilliary Clinton will never be President".**

** Camera cuts back to the face of the elderly man sitting on his bed. He looks down to his hand grasping a little blue pill. Old man flings pill across the room**

"Don't need this anymore!" he exclaims with a wide smile on his face.

**Camera pans out to a front shot of elderly man, lap covered by the bed sheets, pitching an incredible schadenboner tent.**

463
Nordstrom dropped Ivankas fashion line stating sales were down 10% this year and they rotate their lines. No politics mentioned.

Nordstrom is based in Seattle.

Ivanka had some classy shoes. I had a pair in my closet I loved until my cat had a major accident in there, on them.

Hmmmm, is my cat a Democrat?

Posted by: keena at February 03, 2017 12:18 AM (RiTnx)

464
164 Why was Heinz considering spending all that money on advertising if they didn't think it would improve sales (which, evidently, they didn't)?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2017 10:39 PM (oVJmc)

They know an ad would increase sales, but virtue signalling will get them more coverage than their ad.

Every news channel FNC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, FBN, Bloomberg, will all have a story about what Heinz is doing. Your local news will have a story on it. Your local morning radio stations will have a story on it. ESPN will have a story on it. USA Today, WSJ, NYT, WAPO, LATimes, and your local newsrag will have a story about it. Might not get as many eyeballs as being on the Big Game, but the virtue signalers will absolutely love it.

467 Couple things--don't think I'll be posting on the day threads any more--way too much gloom and doom for my taste.

But what a young ton of content here MH, ya outdid yourself. THANK YOU.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (X35Yt)

468
My first camera was a Kodak Starflash when I was in 7th grade. I'd discovered that my father had a diffusion enlarger in the attic and bought the camera and stuff to have my own darkroom. Developed the 127 BW film myself and made enlargements.

Eventually had a bunch of 35mm equipment and a nice darkroom when I was in my 20s. Then got robbed and it was all gone and with the Yen then at a high to the dollar couldn't replace it so dropped it all. Still have the book my dad gave me to get started though.

http://tinyurl.com/hfqojrn

Posted by: geoffb5 at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (d3wbb)

469
445 Euthanasia is fine by me. I suggest we propose to make it available on a test basis for Trump haters.

Posted by: S at February 03, 2017 12:09 AM (YtzJ5)

I'm only okay with it if the person requesting it is of sound mind and judgment, is legally capable of signing a contract for it, and only the person receiving it can request it. Not a person with the power of attorney, no doctor or family members deciding for you, etc.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at February 03, 2017 12:20 AM (X52ZZ)

And then collecting SSDI for a living.Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 03, 2017 12:06 AM (Nox3c)

---not to mention collecting STDs for a hobby...

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 03, 2017 12:21 AM (YZH0v)

475
445 Euthanasia is fine by me. I suggest we propose to make it available on a test basis for Trump haters.

---

shouldn't it be called Old-anasia?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 03, 2017 12:22 AM (PqqkK)

476
well, those kangaroo fucking convicts made a vile
pact with obama to trade their filthy jihadi refugees with us in
exchange for taking people who were in costa rica for some reason. we
should spit in their faces and curse them all for making a deal with a
man that obviously hates his countrymen in right before or after the
election in which his successor from another party was named.

Being average, the only jobs I could get were average jobs paying average wages, and I bought an average car on credit. That was when I learned how difficult it was to pay off debt. So I took out a student loan to better myself with higher education and doubled my income to average.

Now I am retired. Too soon old, too late smart.

Posted by: Zack Lee at February 03, 2017 12:26 AM (8HZp0)

483
we really need Peaches to hurl some invective at the kangaroo fuckers for me. no one does invective like Peaches. First exchange I ever had with her at the HQ she spit on me. sigh, those halcyon days.

487
""Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study co-author Kostas Skenderis of the U.K.'s University of Southampton."

That was one of the themes in one of my favorite comic book series, Planetary. Really worth the read.

490>>>we really need Peaches to hurl some invective at the kangaroo fuckers
for me. no one does invective like Peaches. First exchange I ever had
with her at the HQ she spit on me. sigh, those halcyon days.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:27 AM (cPsPa)<<<

Peaches will be back when we win on Sunday, right? I mean, she has to stop by for that? So, I'll be right here waiting.

492
well, the hologram theory proponents make the point that there is as much evidence supporting their theory as any other theory which really doe not do so much to bolster their theory as to point out how little evidence their is to support the "mainstream" / "consensus" theories.

interestingly, the difference between scientists and climate changers is that the former admit how little proof there is for their theories.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:31 AM (cPsPa)

493
There are among the ink and piercings the remnants of a truly beautiful young lady. What a shame.

496
i guess if i had to have a dream car it'd be a cadillac seville, say 77, gun metal gray outside and in. previously owned by a little old lady who only drove it to church on sundays.

Posted by: concrete girl at February 03, 2017 12:36 AM (p0xM7)

497
I expect Hooters was expecting The Bitch to win the election, and was positioning themselves to survive the new wave of Feminist puritanism.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 12:17 AM (WDdjT)

And I'll admit, I don't always downshift as I pass people.... I just do it to the ones who are Greenies, so I can here Gaia cry as I blow past them!

Posted by: Don Quixote at February 03, 2017 12:37 AM (qf6WZ)

501
I may be one of the best handgun shooters here amongst Teh Horde, and I'm "pretty good" with a rifle.

But compared to Weasel, JROD, Iron Mike and a few others around here, my "pretty good" with a rifle looks more and more like a spastic six year old shooting the air-powered machine gun shooting an insufficient number BBs at the five pointed star at the arcade.

**Wide shot of bedroom. Camera pans in from behind an elderly man sitting on the edge of his bed**

**The shot keeps zooming in over his shoulder, a computer screen comes into view across the room**

**Camera snaps to the screen, emblazoned with the AoSHQ header. The first headline on the page recount Donald Trump's immigration EO. The Second is Donald Trump freezing DC hiring. The third is more Trump winning, capped off with "... and Hilliary Clinton will never be President".**

** Camera cuts back to the face of the elderly man sitting on his bed. He looks down to his hand grasping a little blue pill. Old man flings pill across the room**

"Don't need this anymore!" he exclaims with a wide smile on his face.

**Camera pans out to a front shot of elderly man, lap covered by the bed sheets, pitching an incredible schadenboner tent.**

The local "free" liberal newrag, OCWeekly, that I've told you all about before? Gustavo Arellano, ed-in-chief?

Every year they do a list of the best restaurants to get different kinds of food, their Top 100.

Their top place to get sushi was... I'm not kidding... at a strip club buffet in Orange County.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February

heh. well this place has billboards all along the freeway, some of which show a huge platter of scrambled eggs being held in front of an even larger set of juggs. mmmmm steamy hot egg boobs. not sue which is less appealing, boobs that are covered in egg steam or eggs that are covered in boob sweat?

535heh. well this place has billboards all along the freeway, some of
which show a huge platter of scrambled eggs being held in front of an
even larger set of juggs. mmmmm steamy hot egg boobs. not sue which is
less appealing, boobs that are covered in egg steam or eggs that are
covered in boob sweat?

It's a subtle way to let you know you can get a glass of milk with your breakfast.

My husband and I recently discovered that our closest friends (another couple) are having an open relationship. They say they are "polyamorous."... We found out because the husband was hanging all over another woman very publicly at their annual party. ... expecting their first child soon, and have asked us to be the child's godparents. ... I am struggling. I know what I am feeling is wrong and that I shouldn't care what they do. ... I thought I was a better and more accepting person.

AAAAAHHHHHHHGGGHHH!

At least "Ask Amy," however simplistically, properly focused on what is best for the children. Hint: It ain't adultery.

539
458 ... Jim, I had one of those Retina IIc. Calling it a jewel is so correct. And those lenses were top notch. I used one as part of a camera club project detailing a colonial era house before it was restored. That 50mm lens was so good, the restorers used some of my shots, taken at a distance with average 400 speed film, for enlargements of eave fixtures. Definitely a case where the tool overcame lack of experience.

The first camera I bought for myself was a Pentax K1000, like so many other young people. The damn things were basic but utterly reliable and indestructible. I suspect the only way to wreck it would be to drop it in the lava in Mt. Doom. And some of those Pentax lenses were as good as any on the market. Sigh! Memories.

Posted by: JTB at February 03, 2017 12:49 AM (V+03K)

540
504 hey, what is the name of the strip club in florida that has billboards up for hundreds of miles on either side ot the club?

they advertise their strippers and their brunch?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:38 AM (cPsPa)If it's the one that advertises on I-75 with a sign showing a silhouette, with the words "Strippers/Need we say more?" in yellow and black, they're in Georgia.

Cafe Risque near Gainsville, also on 75, also does extensive advertising, though not as much as they did 30 years ago. It could be embarrassing to see their signs saying, "We dare to bare.... All"

543501...
Holding sub 1 MOA at 100 yards, is no longer an uncommon skill. I'd like to grok that ability out to at least the 1,000 yd. mark.

Bucket list.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Took me two weeks of the MTU whacking me on the head with cleaning rods. If you can routine shoot sub MOA @100, you got the prelim skills nailed.

1. Know your ammo
2. Know distance. We didn't have handheld LRFs back then.
3. Know the wind. Handheld anemometers make that somewhat easier (we tossed a fistful of grass in the air). But you still only "know" it at the firing point. Downrange is harder
4. Optical path bending. The mnemonics we got was "lights up-sights up". How much can be acclimation to local environ.
5. Dope card: precalc that shit: range,wind, & elevation difference. Determine conditions, look it up, dope the scope.
6. You can worry about air density, but it matters more with a large elevation diff between zero and engagement than a change in weather. Think zeroing near sea level and then going shooting near Denver. Or add it to your dope card and take baro reading.
7. Of course, fundamentals.

The Fucktards keep on bein themselves and thereby ensuring their impending doom. My Face hurts from grinnin so much!

As an aside.....I own businesses here in Almost HEAVEN, an I've always felt a distinct responsibility to hire those that Work. It tickles the shit out of me to Reward those that Earn/Deserve it.

I NEVER have a shortage of qualified applicants for positions that need to filled, (when they open up, cause, frankly, turnover is very low)... but when it happens, sumthin interestin occurs....

I can only fiscally hire so many people.....and yet so many qualified folks need jobs.......

The situation above FORCES me to work smarter and harder to grow my businesses.....therefore guaranteeing employment/improved life to my fellow West Virginian's. Simply because they've EARNED/DESERVE it.

I'm negligent if I don't do my fuckin upmost to do right by them.

As His Hairness has shown.....helping Fellow Americans First resonates far and wide.

All the BEST to the Horde of 91 weeks......y'all have EARNED/DESERVE it.

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501...
Holding sub 1 MOA at 100 yards, is no longer an uncommon skill. I'd like to grok that ability out to at least the 1,000 yd. mark.

Bucket list.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Took me two weeks of the MTU whacking me on the head with cleaning rods. If you can routine shoot sub MOA @100, you got the prelim skills nailed.

1. Know your ammo
2. Know distance. We didn't have handheld LRFs back then.
3. Know the wind. Handheld anemometers make that somewhat easier (we tossed a fistful of grass in the air). But you still only "know" it at the firing point. Downrange is harder
4. Optical path bending. The mnemonics we got was "lights up-sights up". How much can be acclimation to local environ.
5. Dope card: precalc that shit: range,wind, & elevation difference. Determine conditions, look it up, dope the scope.
6. You can worry about air density, but it matters more with a large elevation diff between zero and engagement than a change in weather. Think zeroing near sea level and then going shooting near Denver. Or add it to your dope card and take baro reading.
7. Of course, fundamentals.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

Or get a kestrel with Nick's stuff built in, then you can drink and shoot.

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I went once with friends because one guy was getting married and someone thought it would be fun. I don't get the attraction. The waitresses were meh and the food sucked.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February

Cafe Risque near Gainsville, also on 75, also does extensive advertising, though not as much as they did 30 years ago. It could be embarrassing to see their signs saying, "We dare to bare.... All"
Posted by: Fox2! at February

You had it first. yeah that is the one. We made road trips from the great white north down to fl and you always knew you were getting close when the cafe risque signs started.

563The first camera I bought for myself was a Pentax K1000, like so many other young people. The damn things were basic but utterly reliable and indestructible. I suspect the only way to wreck it would be to drop it in the lava in Mt. Doom. And some of those Pentax lenses were as good as any on the market. Sigh! Memories.

Posted by: JTB at February 03, 2017 12:49 AM (V+03K)

The Retina IIc was the first camera I'd bought for myself.

Second was a Pentax Spotmatic SP II. 42 mm screw mount lens, otherwise, pretty much the same machine as the K-1000. But the Spotmatic had a nifty, cancelable, self-timer, too.

Had the Pentax "K" mount have been engineered for a larger rear lens element, it might have dominated the market. Sadly, the held it to the 42 mm "Universal" screw mount dimensions, which doomed it to eventual oblivion. Even though it was successful for that first decade or two.

The idiot-geniuses at Nikon, have managed to make the "F" system bayonet mount work, with lenses from the early '60s "F" mount lenses, all the way to today's mega electronic automatic everything systems.

Canon could not pull that off, having to abandon their frankly, brilliant pre-auto focus system, which actually "wore in" with time and wear, vs. "wear out" and have to be discarded or rebuilt.

The Nikon Df, is for me now, the Holy Grail of digital SLRs.

It works like a 35 mm, Nikon FE. Same analog controls on top. Full digital magic on the back of the camera. Not cheap, of course. Same full frame sensor as Nikon's top end pro SLR, too.

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 03, 2017 12:16 AM (vBeA5) WHHHHHAT?!Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 03, 2017 12:39 AM (tHwdc)---no surprise here: he said he was seriously thinking about doing that last year when he had a get together in North Hollywood last year...

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For those of us who aren't the best rifle shooters, remember: there is satisfaction knowing you can still make the target nervous out to 300 yards. :-)

Posted by: JTB at February 03, 2017 01:06 AM (V+03K)

574550 501...
Or get a kestrel with Nick's stuff built in, then you can drink and shoot.

Kestrel and an LRF good to 1000m is a good bit of change...

We can dream.

Or sell some stuff

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2017 01:06 AM (di1hb)

575"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study co-author Kostas Skenderis of the U.K.'s University of Southampton.

I know the feeling.

Posted by: zombie Rachel Corrie at February 03, 2017 01:07 AM (rH4JY)

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Misanthropic Humanitarian: I will make sure your refund is sent directly

Maybe it will cover the stomach churning meds you need

Thank you, that's much appreciated. I don't want to be paying platinum-membership prices and seeing these them thar typos & stuff. perse

Nice post, btw. Meaty and free of carrots.

My computers are all breaking down rapidly - don't know how long I'll be able to stay virtually alive. Send Lassie! Tell her Timmy is in the well!

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510 does anyone ever go to hooters? what is the point?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (cPsPa)

About 15 years ago, the young ladies at work gave me a hard time because I had never been to Hooters, so one day when we went out for a staff lunch, they chose to take the boss to Hooters.

Food was awful. The waitresses were all nasty, most had guts bigger than their boobs, and were generally not even 12 packers. So it wasn't a surprise when the location shut down about 5 years ago.

But the worst part was the pathetic flirting that the waitresses were doing, even the young ladies with us from work were laughing at it. The two young ladies from work would have been better Hooter's girls than the actual Hooter's girls.

589
well the nice thing about uber is that when you are going out for a long dinner you can have uber do the driving so you can do the drinking.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 01:21 AM (cPsPa)

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583 510 does anyone ever go to hooters? what is the point?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 03, 2017 12:40 AM (cPsPa)

About 15 years ago, the young ladies at work gave me a hard time because I had never been to Hooters, so one day when we went out for a staff lunch, they chose to take the boss to Hooters.

Food was awful. The waitresses were all nasty, most had guts bigger than their boobs, and were generally not even 12 packers. So it wasn't a surprise when the location shut down about 5 years ago.

But the worst part was the pathetic flirting that the waitresses were doing, even the young ladies with us from work were laughing at it. The two young ladies from work would have been better Hooter's girls than the actual Hooter's girls.
Posted by: Lexus at February 03, 2017 01:12 AM (1JnAL)

Eh. I've been to hooters maybe 3-4 times I think. The ones I've gone to were decent in the looks and food. It's just a case that going to hooters doesn't equal good food and hot women. Kind of like almost every other chain out there. Heck if there are multiple locations in a city you can probably hear about the good one and the bad one.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:22 AM (8dgCO)

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Speaking of LRFs, that accident a wake killed a CCT I knew. Godspeed C.

600
Best thing for Tromp is to shave his dog's ass for himm and teach it to walk backwards so it looks like him !!!!!!!!! TRump is an iddiot and we in Brattleboro stills supports Sinator Sandders for Presdent...

601
Ooo Mary's been listening to her old Redd Foxx albums!! And getting drunk no doubt...

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 03, 2017 01:28 AM (u8kLQ)

602
Most memorable shot: Reh deer, Range 204, Grafenwoehr, Germany, about 2
AM. 1 rd, 25mm TPDSFS-T, 1800 meters. Neck shot (called thusly, too).
Forestmeister took it to an orphange.---had a Mustang CO in 1/18th Cav that told of the time he hit an animal (cow?) on a range in Germany with a HESH round when he was an EM on an M-60....

predictable results, and no donation of the meat.

the CA ARNG had a live fire back in the 80's on Ft Hungry Lizard where they very carefully ran off all the cattle, prior to the CALFEX, only to have them stampede back when the TF opened fire with everything they had....

end result: several 100 cattle dead or put down, and a small article in the LA Slimes.

not to mention a large payout to the rancher.

Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:30 AM (YZH0v)

603588 Took me two weeks of the MTU whacking me on the head with cleaning rods.
If you can routine shoot sub MOA @100, you got the prelim skills
nailed.

---
or you could just stick with shooting TOW missiles at everything.

Real artistry is possible with those. You can double that accuracy if you can develop a light and smooth touch for the final 200 meter of flight. And it is good to learn to fly around things that can cut your wire, like fires and wrecks. Threading needles is a nice challenge too. Good for raising heart rates and blood pressures of superiors during peacetime shoots. $30k per missile, risky shot, etc

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Test of an earlier-posted link with the banned i*m*g string, all caps inserted in place of the lower case i*m*g

---danke: i had forgotten about that Pixy fetish...

Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:33 AM (YZH0v)

605the CA ARNG had a live fire back in the 80's on Ft Hungry Lizard where they very carefully ran off all the cattle, prior to the CALFEX, only to have them stampede back when the TF opened fire with everything they had....

end result: several 100 cattle dead or put down, and a small article in the LA Slimes.

not to mention a large payout to the rancher

Oh yes, a COWEX! Did one of those in 85, same place. Thought we'd have some bbq for dinner, until 105s then A10s had their turn.

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Good for raising heart rates and blood pressures of superiors during peacetime shoots. $30k per missile, risky shot, etc---i wouldn't know... my BN got 1 missile/year, IF we were lucky. most years we got 0.

then i'd go to AD units on KPUP assignments, and find out they got so many missiles they got bored firing them and would just launch, then cut the wires after 5-10 seconds of flight.

2nd class citizens we were... same standards, but only a fraction of the resources.

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For me a hot meal,would be a longer lasting experience then one with a hot womanPosted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:36 AM (voOPb)---they have medication for that sort of thing.... D)

Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:40 AM (YZH0v)

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Eh. I've been to hooters maybe 3-4 times I think. The ones I've gone to were decent in the looks and food. It's just a case that going to hooters doesn't equal good food and hot women. Kind of like almost every other chain out there. Heck if there are multiple locations in a city you can probably hear about the good one and the bad one.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:22 AM (8dgCO)

The most remarkable thing about Hooters is that it is completely unremarkable. It's a sports bar with waitresses clad in what is basically cheerleader attire. It's not a whore house, and it's not particularly erotic at all. And the food is unremarkable, too.

623
620 Eh. I've been to hooters maybe 3-4 times I think. The ones I've gone to were decent in the looks and food. It's just a case that going to hooters doesn't equal good food and hot women. Kind of like almost every other chain out there. Heck if there are multiple locations in a city you can probably hear about the good one and the bad one.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:22 AM (8dgCO)

The most remarkable thing about Hooters is that it is completely unremarkable. It's a sports bar with waitresses clad in what is basically cheerleader attire. It's not a whore house, and it's not particularly erotic at all. And the food is unremarkable, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 03, 2017 01:40 AM (WDdjT)

Which makes the feminist freak out over it rather pathetic. They've been acting like the girls are topless since the 90s. And yeah I would say the food is unremarkable. Just about like every other chain restaurant out there.

With the old thermal viewer?
Posted by: Jean at February 03, 2017 01:08 AM (2RVmA)

Yep. M2A2.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf,

The deer should have been about 1 pixel

He was a bit more than a mil wide. Turned the reticle brightness way down. Had a new barrel, one of the first fluted ones. Turned off the stab, too. Gun had tighter-than-spec dispersion. Stars aligned, etc.

627
I mean when have you heard "let's go to TGI Friday's. the food is amazing!"

Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:48 AM (8dgCO)

628He was a bit more than a mil wide. Turned the reticle brightness way
down. Had a new barrel, one of the first fluted ones. Turned off the
stab, too. Gun had tighter-than-spec dispersion. Stars aligned, etc.

The hard-left Berkely fascist arsonists need to read this.

Read and understand it.

Posted by: implications at February 03, 2017 01:51 AM (wpC7C)

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Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:48 AM (8dgCO)---from the same idiots who said "let's go to Shakey's... they have a buffet!"...

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619 For me a hot meal,would be a longer lasting experience then one with a hot woman
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 03, 2017 01:36 AM (voOPb)
---
they have medication for that sort of thing.... D)
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:40 AM (YZH0v)

As I typed that, I knew it was beyond the scope of 99.375% of modern university "educations".

It's accurate, nevertheless.

Posted by: my aim is true at February 03, 2017 01:56 AM (wpC7C)

635
Sounds like I'm eating out twice that weekend. ---i'd eat them both out every day of the week...

Posted by: redc1c4, at February 03, 2017 01:56 AM (YZH0v)

636
I mean when have you heard "let's go to TGI Friday's. the food is amazing!"

Posted by: Buzzion at February 03, 2017 01:48 AM (8dgCO)

Exactly. Those places could have interchangeable menus, and nobody would notice. (insert Fapplebees snark here)

When I was on course in Houston one time, I ate a lot at a TGIF in the Greenspoint area, because it was handy to Dresser Center, had tolerably good food, and they had that video trivia game, so I could occupy a couple of hours playing.

650President of the European Council Donald Tusk has joined Verhofstadt in denouncing the Trump administration in a letter to European heads of state, clearly conveying the ranks of EU bureaucrats are closing.

651Just a heads up. Project Veritas had an infiltrator at UC Berkley deep undercover with full audio/video recordings the past week. They've got a lot of agitators on tape with clear strategy about how to start the riot and shut down Milo's speech. Best part, and this is the icing on the cake, there is DIRECT evidence on the tapes of George Soros funding this operation (his son is a PhD candidate there as well and was involved behind the scenes). When the tape comes out early next week after editing, it's going to be an absolute shitstorm and probably will result in the loss of federal funding for the university. Trump didn't just tweet that out early this morning by coincidence. Brace yourself lads.

-You like boats, but not the ocean.
-You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains.
-There's a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof, and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone.
-You're a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. -You're very generous.
-You're kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.

When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.

704
I just watched the full Tucker Carlson/Milo video interview and I was rapt. Food for thought for anyone trying to puzzle out what the future might hold in the US regarding free speech and of course the utter failure of the MFM's objectivity.

There's a lot more meat to Milo than dick jokes, and it terrifies the Left far more than HORROR girl terrifies me. She doesn't scare me, she just makes me sad. Sad for her. She's a cutter, but in a more socially acceptable form.

716
Ace was praising that piece on liberalism today, and it does make a few good points. But that is far overwhelmed by the author's insistence that globalism and reliance on experts is the only way to go.

Gee, dude, that wouldn't just happen to encompass your particular world view most effectively? Yeah, I thought so. Canada has the best model, the EU is next, and the US's liberty and melting pot model runs a poor distant third.

726
Ugh. Here's an excerpt from my in-box, from the head of IKEA in the U.S. Why don't they stop annoying their Fiskbo customers & send this shit directly to the White House?

We believe in the power of people working together: people from different backgrounds, nationalities, and beliefs, uniting to create a better everyday life for themselves and for one another
We believe that each of us has the responsibility to stand up for the dignity and rights of every individual, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other individual characteristic.

Posted by: voiceover at February 03, 2017 03:48 AM (xZnSc)

727
Not to say these aren't lovely Hallmark thoughts. But why now, as if I couldn't guess?

Exhausted from a long two days of cleaning up Previously TV. Here's a good thing to come out of it (besides getting lib nastiness deleted) -- have noticed in the last 24 hours, conservatives are come out of hiding & "liking" my posts.

737
Milo, by not speaking at Berkeley, gained 1,270% in book sales ranking at Amazon. In other words, his audience vastly increased by what he didn't do.

That must mean that people became much more interested in WHY he was being silenced by TPTB. And don't kid yourself, he was being silenced.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 04:38 AM (xpfRn)

738
Someone asked if at 4am its always this slow, I say for the most part yes it is. Often I get on when I get up ( a little later today) and am the only one making comments for a hour. Rarely there are a few people still going from overnight or the insomniacs from the EMT.

He talks about the riot on Jan 25th at the Milo event. It seems like the police aren't doing what needs to be done for whatever reason. We saw it first when the BLM people took the stage some month ago. This is making me furious.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 03, 2017 04:45 AM (VdICR)

743
735 Here on the MS Gulf coast, we've had 2 days of sub-freezing weather all winter. I expect one more freezing snap, but even the grass doesn't believe it. It's growing.

Fuck you, grass, the mower doesn't get used until March at the earliest.

Hmm. Anyone here think this was a good decision? A bad one? I personally think it was an okay decision.

Posted by: qdpsteve

Actually, I'm pretty much o.k. with that - especially when you consider that that's definitely the only even half-way intelligent thing anyone's ever heard of with even a faintly-remote connection to Big Jawn F'in' Kerry; aka, "Johnny Ketchup-Boy", the Winter Soldjah Whiz-Fizzle (married to the Heinz fortune, y'know...)

We open on a giant, nonsensical battle. Think Thunderdome meets Anchorman. A small, furry figure climbs a small cliff overlooking the battle.

Reaching the top, he speaks:

Nyub. (Hey.) Nyub! (Hey!) NYUB! (HEY!) Yub Jub-Jub! (This is ONT!)

The scene shifts to Corgis. Not five Corgis, but a stampede of Corgis, like the Riders of Rohan in Return of the King. One Corgi races ahead of the mob.

Breaking away, he runs up marble steps into an ancient Roman/Greek-looking structure. Past rows of columns, until sliding to a halt in front of a statue of Brian Dennehy . Excitedly, he barks! The Subtitle reads: First!

Fade to black. The AoSHQ logo appears.

Posted by: Moron Films, Inc at February 03, 2017 05:25 AM (q1+kD)

754We believe in the power of people working together: people from different backgrounds, nationalities, and beliefs, uniting to create a better everyday life for themselves and for one another
We believe that each of us has the responsibility to stand up for the dignity and rights of every individual, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other individual characteristic.

They may prefer Chicken Of The Sea, but in a pinch they will settle for Chicken On The Floor.

Humans -- Large cans of catfood.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 03, 2017 05:33 AM (xpfRn)

757Since Peter Jackson appears to be unable to make anything even remotely successful except for things from the Tolkienverse -- and even there his record is spotty -- why not turn him loose on Bored of the Rings?
Five nine is your height and 180's your weight
You'll cash in your chips around page 88

767
I would think in a test situation a unknown corpse and a housecat locked together the cat would eat the person, but like a dog might if it was the cats companion it wouldn't touch the person. It could go either way but thats my guess.

780
Is the science ever settled? No. That is the beautiful nature of science.

It is what ticks me off more than anything when the media tries to tell me that science has "proved" something. Science proves nothing. It gives us the best explantation for something that we understand at the time. The fact that so many people fall for the "science is settled" shows me what a dismal science education our kids get.

Posted by: Quirky. Bookworm at February 03, 2017 06:23 AM (gppsv)

781
"The fact that so many people fall for the "science is settled" shows me what a dismal science education our kids get. "

No kidding. Pitiful. Strikes me more like catechism class than science, the few youngsters I've talked to about sciencey-stuff.

Maybe the contrast is worse for me; I was a Sputnik-era kid, when they practically force-fed us the Scientific Method, etc. Went on to work in research and testing most of my life which is all about going where the data seems to lead you.

Don't get me started about "adjusting" raw data.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 03, 2017 06:34 AM (1d+CX)

782
It appears from the Berkeley and NY riots, fascism is descending upon America.

787
Yeah, don't think we're gonna get a choice, it only takes one to get it started. Aggressor sets the ROE, though, so a lotta options will be open ....

"Too bad the FBI can't arrest the rioters, get the phone date, use metadata to roll up the network, and save America. "
Old-school !
Love it.
Only problem is they'd have to want to stop it, and I have zero confidence in that, or any other branch of the gummint, having any of that spirit left.
Well except PDT and direct appointees thereof.